The Windows 10 operating system will soon have the ability to run GUI Linux apps on the Windows desktop. Is Microsoft trying to replace Linux installations with Windows 10? That would be very interesting. But there is already a Windows version of GIMP, this would imply that they want to run other things like the … Read more
A new package manager is available for Windows. This is just copying ideas from Ubuntu and Debian. This allows the installation of software from a repository and install it on your Windows 10 computer. This works by running the winget install command to install a Windows package. Pity you can not run winget remove –purge … Read more
Microsoft is apparently planning to remove the option to have local accounts in Windows 10. This means that a user can only have a Microsoft account and Hotmail address linked to your Windows login. This on top of the many problems with Windows 10 and it is pretty clear that Windows is going to be … Read more
Microsoft is putting anti-Firefox ads on the start menu. This could be construed as anti-competitive practice. They want everyone to use Microsoft Edge instead of Firefox. I bet they hate Google Chrome as well. But their operating system is plagued by buggy horrible updates that always break key components like Windows Search and Explorer. So … Read more
The latest Windows Update KB4532695 is causing the Internet connections of Windows 10 users to drop out. This is embarrassing for Microsoft. They are so useless they cannot even put out a simple update without the Internet breaking or audio failing. They are useless. That is why Linux should become more popular. Windows 10 users … Read more
Windows 8.1 at the moment is giving me a lot of problems. There is constant disk activity at 0.1 megabytes per second. This is very annoying, there are Windows services doing this, but it only recently started. T think it is better to use Linux instead, which does not have that problem. But why do … Read more
I have installed SUN Solaris 10 in a Virtual Machine. This is fun to experiment with. SUN Solaris Java Desktop System. This uses a very nice desktop theme. Once installed it only has the root account. But you can su to root and then run the smc command at the prompt to load the Solaris … Read more
The new Windows 10 update KB4520062 Could Break Defender ATP, Microsoft Warns. This is yet another embarrassment for the software giant, they cannot even release a simple update without it breaking a key Windows feature. They should really create a whole new codebase and then use that to create an entirely new version of Windows. … Read more
Linux and Windows are continually in a state of competition, but the problem with Windows 10 is the update methods that create many and varied problems that should never even happen in the first place. The Linux and Macintosh operating systems do not have that many problems when upgrading. I have updated Macintosh OS to … Read more
This is a Windows 10 computer with a virus infestation, this person was asking if this was a serious problem or not. I mean really? Of course it is. As long as I had Windows 10 installed, I shouldn’t have had anything at all to worry about. The problem is that I was getting messages … Read more
The forced restarts in Windows 10 are very annoying when you are working on something and then your machine restarts in the middle of your work. There is a way to turn this off. To do this go to this folder. %windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator%windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator Rename the “Restart” file and create a folder called “Restart” so that Windows … Read more
This is another way to gain root permissions on a Debian system; this is a script that will elevate the user to root for a specific command; like using the sudo command. su-to-root -X -c "cat /etc/shadow"su-to-root -X -c "cat /etc/shadow" This is what you get if you try this without root permissions. [flynn@flynn-grid-runner ~]$ … Read more
I have just installed the Windows 10 15025 build and the bash shell. I have to say that it works way better than earlier versions. The apt update and the apt upgrade commands worked straight away. And ping works now. The networking is greatly improved. This is a good asset to the Windows 10 desktop … Read more
The Windows 10 nag screen was using a dirty trick that involved having the close button to start the installation. This is very annoying, firstly, you click the upgrade now button and it starts the upgrade, but now the close button was starting the upgrade? That is one dirty trick indeed. Why are Microsoft so … Read more
The much-hyped Windows 10 bash shell is quite underwhelming to say the least. This is good as an SSH client and to browse the web using Lynx, but ping and ifconfig do not work at all. I could not get the MySQL server running either. This is what I get when trying to start the … Read more
Location of the Windows 10 bash shell files This is the location of the actual files that are installed when you install the Windows 10 bash shell. This means that it is not really a ext4 filesystem, but emulating this when you load it up in a CMD window. %localappdata%\lxss\rootfs%localappdata%\lxss\rootfs The location of the actual … Read more
Why is the giant Microsoft corporation attempting to force Windows 10 updates upon everyone? If it is to use Windows 10 to spy upon the users, then this does not make any sense. They could just include an update for Windows 7 or 8 that would include such telemetry software functionality. I guess they are … Read more
The new Windows 10 bash shell is not very impressive once you get it installed. I have tried it and I could not ping websites even though Microsoft Edge could access the Internet. It is possible to install packages if these lines are added to the /etc/hosts file. 91.189.91.14 archive.ubuntu.com 91.189.92.201 security.ubuntu.com91.189.91.14 archive.ubuntu.com 91.189.92.201 security.ubuntu.com … Read more
The new bash shell in Windows 10 build 10.0.14316 is the best addition to Windows 10 yet. Here I am getting information about the CPU. root@localhost:/mnt/c/Users/johnc# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 60 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz stepping : 3 microcode : … Read more